Butt's Cottage Cobweb Castle is a Grade II listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 December 1982. Cottage.
Butt's Cottage Cobweb Castle
- WRENN ID
- veiled-pewter-weasel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- East Grinstead and Uckfield MP: Mims Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 December 1982
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Butt's Cottage Cobweb Castle, 147, High Street, Uckfield
- OS grid reference
- TQ 474 217
- Coordinates
- 50.97656, 0.09939
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Butt's Cottage, also known as Cobweb Castle, is an early 19th-century building located on the west side of Uckfield High Street. It stands two storeys high with an attic and features three windows and two dormers. The exterior is stuccoed and includes a dentilled eaves cornice and a tiled roof, with intact glazing bars. The building has a pair of doorways adorned with fluted Doric columns, a joint entablature that includes a triglyph frieze, segmental fanlights, and six-panel doors. Additionally, there is one window bay added at the south end, which has a slate roof.
Local climate
Butt's Cottage Cobweb Castle receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2004
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